4Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land,
4Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land,
1 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.
2 "What do you see, Amos?" he asked. "A basket of ripe fruit," I answered. Then the Lord said to me, "The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
3 "In that day," declares the Sovereign Lord , "the songs in the temple will turn to wailing. Many, many bodies-flung everywhere! Silence!"
4 Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land,
5 saying, "When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?"- skimping the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales,
6 buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
8:4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
8:4Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,
8:4Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
8:4Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,
8:4Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
8:4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
8:4Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
8:4Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,
8:4Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,